15th January Lower Manhattan Financial District & World Trade Centre. We started our tour opposite City Hall, our guides became quite excited when the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, was walking by. New York's City Hall is one of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the USA that still houses its original governmental functions, completed in 1812, it is one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Next we passed The Woolworth Building designed by architect Cass Gilbert. It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, with a height of 792 feet. We continued to The World Trade Centre memorial area but not before pausing outside St. Paul’s chapel. The World Trade Center buildings collapsed just across the street but remarkably there was no damage to St. Paul’s,
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